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NewsGlobe: Interviews
MoCA taps for gold in coax
Alliance expands home networking’s QoS and bandwidth capabilities
by Sean Buckley
For all the bandwidth you have in the last mile, it will be nothing if the
home wiring is not up to snuff. Some service providers have and will
install new Cat 5 cabling into a home, but that approach is one that’s
hard to scale.
Instead, many service providers are extending the utility
of either the existing phone lines (home phone networking alliance) or
HFC cabling (multimedia over coax alliance). Fueled by the high
bandwidth needs of large telcos such as Verizon, which is using it as
their standard home networking technology, MoCA has upped the ante of
its capabilities with new PQoS (parameterized quality of service) features
and consumer devices.
In the following Audiocast, Telecommunications
Executive Editor Sean Buckley talks to Dr. Anton Monk, board member of
the MoCA (multimedia over coax alliance) and CTO & Co-Founder of
Entropic Communications.
In the Audiocast, Monk addresses these questions:
While the ultimate medium for any home network would be a fiber or run
all new Cat 5 in a house, those approaches do have a lot of costs
associated with them, so many service providers are using either existing
phone lines, coax, powerlines and wireless. How has MoCA, which uses a
home’s existing coax, stand up against the competition and do you see
continued momentum around using existing wiring concepts growing?
Verizon has chosen MoCA respectively. Do you see their use of MoCA as
validation for the existing HFC approach?
MoCA has now put out 1.1 extension of the standard, which includes
PQoS (parameterized quality of service) for bandwidth management and
an increase in network size from the current eight nodes to 16 nodes.
What are the elements of the 1.1 extension and what are the benefits
from a customer point of view?
You mentioned the notion of QoE (Quality of Experience). What’s your
definition of QoE?
Click here to listen to the Audiocast
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